Cameron Cook A June ’22 Nature article reveals the tensions between data sharing, the willingness of researchers to share their data, and the actual access to data behind data availability statements. Within the US, it …
Datapoints: the RDS blog
NIH Data Management & Sharing Policy Drop-ins!
Drop in and learn about the forthcoming NIH data sharing requirements! Bring your lunch and your questions! RDS is providing a series of drop-in sessions over the lunch hour through Fall 2022 that will …
White House Memo on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research
On August 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) released Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research , which expands on the original 2013 memo that …
New Machine Learning (ML) Community at UW-Madison
This month we are excited to feature the Data Science Hub’s new Machine Learning (ML) Community! We reached out to Chris Endemann, who is a Data Science Facilitator at the Data Science Hub and leads …
Link Roundup April 2022
Cameron Cook UW-Madison researchers made some new bird biodiversity maps available that could help with conservation. The researchers made these publicly available via the Dryad data repository, of which UW-Madison is a member institution. If …
Initiative to Improve Access to NIH-funded Data
The NIH Office of Data Strategy recently announced the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI). This new initiative seeks to supplement the subject-specific NIH data repositories available to NIH-funded researchers with 6 generalist repositories. These expanded …
Resources for Sharing and Discovering Geospatial Data
By Jaime Martindale, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian Resources for Sharing and Discovering Geospatial Data Geospatial data is digital geographic content that represents or describes features/phenomena on the earth. It’s useful because it gives us …